-l -


, .4
:. :,


r~W~


flowing south, the comparatively narrow strip of country Mq-


rating the Atlantid and


the Gulf, and


the .numerous snfalter


bodies of
prevailing


water
winds


abundantly distributed


over its surface, the


always sweeping over water


a unifortt


temperature, which modifies the heat of summer and the cold
of winter. The peculiar character of the climate,"' says br.
Robert Southgate (" United States Army Medical Report"),
"consists less in the mean annual tern neramtnr than in thA


manner of its distribution


an insular clin
modified; althc
47 73' colder t
place is only 80


nate,


- II- .


- -. r K V..


throughout


extremes


nugh the winter at Fort


han


at Tampa
warmer.


Bay,


year.


temperature


v flbu a -


Possessing
are much


Selling, Minnesota, is
t summer at the latter


-In the summer season, the mer-


cury rises


higher


in any portion of


United


States, and


even in Can
"Within the


ada,


than


period of


does


along the coast of Florida."


six years," says Forry,


"the mercury


at Key West was never known to rise higher than 900 Fabr., or
lower than 44 Fahr." The variabiity of the winter tempera-
ture has frequently been noticed, and has been often alluded
to, by those who have not had personal experience of the actual


effects of these


changes


on the


human


system, or with


modifying influence on these changes of the peculiar constitu-
tion and surroundings of the State, many of which have al-
ready been pointed out, as greatly detracting fiom its value as


a health-resort.


A change in twelve hours, for instance, from


70 to 60 or 50, has a very different effect on the sick from


a change of
or Chicago.


a like number of degrees in Boston, New York,
Practically, these variations are of actual benefit


to those invalids who are


tolerably careful,


and who take the


precaution to change clothing with the change of temperature.
A continuous temperature of from 75 to 800 at mid-day, for
a number of consecutive days, is generally felt as a serious in-
bonvenience, especially by the more advanced and debilitated


Omes


phthisis,


these


generally


longed


for-the cold


perience


6eange, knowing by ex
the .ed4 heat of some


dv'ev hbih. and very am ble


their' tonic


effect,


where


troppal regions, though not oexs-


-.


moat unmnn_ t aienrlv


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